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Anonymous SFG said...

A lot of good points, but they have shown the children of immigrants are much more likely to start a business.

3/24/14, 3:34 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would actually be very impressed if Boston produced more native-born scientists (or academics in general for the measure is ok) when controlled for whiteness.

That would be interesting, but then that is probably not true, hate to be the guy bringing it up but that statement is so glaring. Boston was simply one of the whitest large cities in the entire United States through the mid 20th century. Though if I had to venture a hypothesis it would be that parts of Washington state and the DC area might legitimately be overrepresented for the Baby Boomer era for benign social reasons, actually providing opportunities and networking and the like.

3/24/14, 4:03 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Note, too, the clever use of "immigrant." Liberals love to use immigrant as a kind of generic catch-all, something that puts a Mestizo from Mexico on equal footing with a Hungarian Jew. In reality, of course, the listing of Stone, Moore, and Bullock speaks only to the possible beneficial effects of White immigrants from France, Scotland, and Germany, not to large scale immigration from, say, Honduras or El Salvador.....

3/24/14, 5:48 AM

Blogger Luke Lea said...

That post-Warholian defintion of fame -- 15.000 fans -- is pretty interesting. I recall that influential policy magazines back in the day, at least on the libera/left side of the divide (e.g., The New Republic, New York Review of Books) typically had around 100,000 subscribers. Not sure about publications on the right (National Review).

So the question arises: at what point does one become influential? Sure, buys with columns at NYT have much greater readerships. But are they truly influential, or are they merely parotting ideas that have already become influential for other reasons? Recall Keynes' remark about second-rate ideas from some previous generation . . .

How influential was Orwell in his day? Of course he wrote a couple of best-selling novels. Maybe that is the key.

Anyway, I regard Sailer as the best journalist in America and, in the long run, I suspect he will turn out to be the most influential. But only after the current generation of opinion-gate-keepers dies out (or are fired, yes, I am talking about you Pinch).

3/24/14, 6:44 AM

Blogger Luke Lea said...

It would be fun to see an analysis of above versus below the Mason-Dixon Line.

3/24/14, 6:46 AM

Blogger Luke Lea said...

From the talk section on Steve Sailer's Wikepedia page one finds this Wikipedia definition of racism:

Racism refers to the beliefs and practices that assume inherent and significant differences exist between the genetics of various groups of human beings; that assume these differences can be measured on a scale of "superior" to "inferior"; and that result in the social, political and economic advantage of one group in relation to others.

Based on this definition I would like to see a list of famous people throughout history who could be characterised as racist? I guess it would start with Aristotle.

3/24/14, 8:08 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The notion that immigrants are attracted to where the money is seems to be hard for analysts to grasp. West Virginia increasingly tends to be populated by leftover people who don't have the drive to leave tapped out coal mining towns. West Virginia isn't poor because it doesn't have many immigrants, it doesn't have many immigrants because it's poor."


The more I read the MSM, the more I am convinced that lib idiots really struggle to identify the cause of a given effect.

3/24/14, 9:21 AM

Anonymous Another Dad said...

I feel so inadequate.

My stock portfolio is in good shape. The wife and I are still together twenty something years in. The kids are all at a half-decent school-UW--and doing well. (All three with me here in Jamaica today for spring break.) I thought I was doing ok. Now I realize ...
i'm still underperforming. Damn!

3/24/14, 9:29 AM

Anonymous Dave Pinsen said...

Re Bergen County: via Wikipedia, here's a list of notable current or former residents in one small (15k) Bergen County town, Tenafly.

3/24/14, 9:40 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Whatever happened to Paul Rodriguez? He was funny. Kind of.

3/24/14, 10:10 AM

Anonymous airtommy said...

A lot of good points, but they have shown the children of immigrants are much more likely to start a business

But we already had "too many chiefs not enough Indians", so this just means immigrants are taking away scarce high-income jobs away from native Americans.

3/24/14, 10:35 AM

Anonymous David said...

>they have shown the children of immigrants are much more likely to start a business.<

They have also shown that people start businesses in expectation of making money. Meaning, more businesses will be started in, for example, CA than in WVA. People (including people who will start a business) flock to wherever the money is; this plainly includes immigrants.

So, yes, a given area "isn't poor because it doesn't have many immigrants, it doesn't have many immigrants because it's poor."

3/24/14, 11:06 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

So, yes, a given area "isn't poor because it doesn't have many immigrants, it doesn't have many immigrants because it's poor."
Sometimes, true, West Virginia is far from the border. Minnesota has a lot less Mexicans than Texas. Texas is growing faster but if you adjust for poverty Minnesota is much lower. There is a lot of illegal immigrants in meat packing towns that are not that great economically because they will do meat packing at lower wages.

3/24/14, 2:39 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Actually, Cal is more gen-x even the whites in California average age 42 not 52.

3/24/14, 2:40 PM

Anonymous mike said...

Luke:

I used to be a TNR subscriber. I remember that somewhere around 1992 they ran an item noting they'd hit the 100,000 mark for the first time in their history. Throughout the '80's, when it was undoubtedly the best-written periodical in America, the number was consistently around 95k.

3/24/14, 4:14 PM

Anonymous mike said...

Luke:

I used to be a TNR subscriber. I remember that somewhere around 1992 they ran an item noting they'd hit the 100,000 mark for the first time in their history. Throughout the '80's, when it was undoubtedly the best-written periodical in America, the number was consistently around 95k.

3/24/14, 4:14 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

they have shown the children of immigrants are much more likely to start a business

There are hundreds of mexicans and central americans selling fruits and ice cream at street corners and freeway entrances in Los Angeles in direct violation of the law. The businesses help the illegals survive but contributes nothing to the quality of life or innovation.

3/24/14, 4:17 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

The major opinion journals (NR, TNR, Nation) would usually strive to reach 100,000 circulation. Important journals like Commentary and New York Review of Book would typically be a fraction of that.

Magazines would usually claim a multiplier of 2 or 3 readers per copy (e.g., libraries, spouses, etc.), but I also suspect that lots of copies were never read by anybody: I can recall a reference to "a stack of New York Review of Books piling up in a surly mound of subscription guilt."

3/24/14, 4:55 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

We have never had "too many chiefs and not enough Indians". And never will.

3/24/14, 8:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's not what Keynes said. He said so called practical people are in fact motivated by some dead economist. Gosh you could have just listened to that Keynes vs Hayek rap from awhile back to know that.

3/24/14, 8:41 PM

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